Hey guys. Hope you are doing swell.
I made an account on TH just because this has become a serious problem.
I upgraded my PC last Christmas, which included upgrading to an EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 and an AMD FX 8350. I bought a 256GB Crucial BX100 SSD about a month ago. It's been a while now, but today I decided to install Windows 10 because it sounds like a great OS since all of my friends were telling me about it.
So I installed it, activated it, etc. And checked task manager to manage startup services and programs and saw in the performance tab that my 8GB Corsair Vengeance was running at 1333 MHz instead of 1600 as advertised. Strange. Not only that, but my CPU was running at 2.8 GHz. Wtf? I thought 4 GHz was stock. Ok. So I searched up how to fix this and it said to boot into BIOS and to change the clock multiplier settings. Changed RAM to 1600 MHz and the CPU to 4.0 GHz. Originally the settings were both set to [Auto], which adjusted it to those speeds.
Tried booting into Windows, got a blue screen. It said something along the lines of IRQL Not_Equal or something like that. Uh oh. Not good. So I tried researching this problem and from what I read on this forum it says it's a driver problem. ~But I did a fresh install of Windows 10 with the latest Geforce Drivers...?
So I lowered the RAM clock speed back to 1333 MHz and the CPU down to 3.5 GHz. Works well as of right now, but I feel like this is gonna kick me in the ass when I'm playing resource intensive games. How can I restore my hardware back to normal clock speeds without messing anything up? I've never had this problem before.
I made an account on TH just because this has become a serious problem.
I upgraded my PC last Christmas, which included upgrading to an EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 2.0 and an AMD FX 8350. I bought a 256GB Crucial BX100 SSD about a month ago. It's been a while now, but today I decided to install Windows 10 because it sounds like a great OS since all of my friends were telling me about it.
So I installed it, activated it, etc. And checked task manager to manage startup services and programs and saw in the performance tab that my 8GB Corsair Vengeance was running at 1333 MHz instead of 1600 as advertised. Strange. Not only that, but my CPU was running at 2.8 GHz. Wtf? I thought 4 GHz was stock. Ok. So I searched up how to fix this and it said to boot into BIOS and to change the clock multiplier settings. Changed RAM to 1600 MHz and the CPU to 4.0 GHz. Originally the settings were both set to [Auto], which adjusted it to those speeds.
Tried booting into Windows, got a blue screen. It said something along the lines of IRQL Not_Equal or something like that. Uh oh. Not good. So I tried researching this problem and from what I read on this forum it says it's a driver problem. ~But I did a fresh install of Windows 10 with the latest Geforce Drivers...?
So I lowered the RAM clock speed back to 1333 MHz and the CPU down to 3.5 GHz. Works well as of right now, but I feel like this is gonna kick me in the ass when I'm playing resource intensive games. How can I restore my hardware back to normal clock speeds without messing anything up? I've never had this problem before.